History Sandbox / Siegfried1337

** Ibuka Masaru:

** Morita Akio:
** Matsushita Masaharu:

* Of course, [[ArcWords the more things change, the more they stay the same]]. No matter which Chief Executive is currently in charge of Guangdong, it never really changes that much. The only thing that does change is how much human cost is needed to produce profit and regardless, the dynamic of Guangdong consists of Japanese expats being the ruling class, the Zhujin middle-class, and the Chinese low-class. Such is life in Guangdong, where corporate visionaries become national ones.

* Portfolio in General: '''[[OneNationUnderCopyright Rulers of a corporate nation]]''', [[ArmsDealer can experiment and sell new firearms]] ([[AwesomeButImpractical whose designs sound good in paper but overkill in practice]]), [[CapitalismIsBad the negatives of unrestrained capitalism]], {{Corrupt Politician}}s to varying degrees, [[CyberpunkForFlavor having elements of the Cyberpunk genre]], [[FictionalCountry being a coastal province rather than a country in our timeline]], [[ForScience can sell innovative products at the expense of their people]] [[GadgeteerGenius with extremely high quality]], [[HistoricalVillainUpgrade being more corrupt in TNOTL to varying degrees]] (especially Komai)

* Because they came from a timeline where the entire Axis won WWII, not to mention selling their products and weapons across the globe for GDP, the various WWII-era US Army and Navy servicemen have opposed them due to not just being corporations that serve the Empire of Japan, but also selling various products to subvert American freedom, especially with the case of Komai Kenichirō, whose entire MO consists of selling cheap yet high-quality products to various nations so that they can overlook Hitachi's various abuses, and with the help of Eliza and Neil Reagan, they've successfully managed to set a foothold across the entire Trope Pantheons.

* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Ibuka with Komai, due only being invited as a sideliner against Morita Akio, and consequently, Ibuka and Komai's allies tend to not work together willingly. But more specifically:

* Because they came from a timeline where the entire Axis won WWII, not to mention selling their products and weapons across the globe for GDP, the various WWII-era US Army and Navy servicemen have opposed them due to not just being corporations that serve the Empire of Japan, but also selling various produces to subvert American freedom, especially with the case of Komai Kenichirō, whose entire MO consists of selling cheap yet high-quality products to various nations so that they can overlook Hitachi's various abuses, and with the help of Eliza and Neil Reagan, they've successfully managed to set a foothold across the entire Trope Pantheon.

** Matsushita Masaharu: [[Pantheon/VillainousAppearances Renata Glasc]]

*** Reconciliation: [[Pantheon/{{Thieves}} The Phantom Thieves of Hearts]]

** Komai Kenichirō: '''[[Pantheon/CouplesOrientation Luz Noceda and Amity Blight]]''' ('''''especially the latter''''')

** Komai Kenichirō: The Imperial Japanese Navy, in particular, [[Pantheon/AlignmentChanges Isoroku Yamamoto]], [[Pantheon/MannersOfDeath Tamon Yamaguchi]], [[Pantheon/GameDesign The Imperial Japanese Special Naval Landing Forces]]

* (Mr Robot)

* Portfolio in General: '''[[OneNationUnderCopyright Rulers of a corporate nation]]''',

* Alignment: LawfulEvil, with the exception of Morita Akio, who is LawfulNeutral with [[LawfulGood Good]] leanings

** Matsushita Masaharu:
** Ibuka Masaru

** Matsushita Masaharu, Ibuka Masaru and Komai Kenichirō: [[Pantheon/GenderRoles Masaya Okonogi]]

* The State of Guangdong is an artificial Japanese colonial state carved out of China in a timeline where the Axis had an total victory over the Allies in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. Initially intended to be a retirement home for Japanese soldiers envisioned by Tōjō Hideki, after he was ousted from power at the end of the war, it instead became a playground of unrestrained capitalism, filled with crime, corruption and poverty, overseen by supposedly the Kanton Minseifu, the Guangdong Civil Administration, but in practice is mostly instead run by the biggest corporations in Guangdong, a fact that has been enforced with the Yasuda Crisis, which saw the Chief Executive Suzuki Teiichi being given a Vote of No Confidence and forced to resign, with the other corporate leaders forcing the now-powerless Representative Director of Yasuda Bank's Guangdong Branch Matsuzawa Takuji to the seat so that the now-disgraced Yasuda Bank can take even more brunt of their unpopular decisions, after which a power vacuum among the Sony, Matsushita Electric and Fujitsu corporations occurs to take the seat of Chief Executive. Both Sony and Fujitsu would invite their respective allies, Cheung Kong and Hitachi to further strengthen their position, but Hitachi seeks to take the throne backed by their Manchurian and IJA connections to turn it into a Manchurian industrial state.

* While the Chief Executives are barely recognizable in our own world with the exception of Morita Akio and Ibuka Masaru who founded Sony in our timeline, nevertheless, the corporations that they are associated with are easily more remembered than them most of the time. In a world where a new order was founded where National Socialism and Fascism is seen a potentially viable ideology, it [[HistoricalVillainUpgrade too corrupted the corporations and the people associated with them]]: Ibuka Masaru would instead betray Morita Akio for Fujitsu caused by Tokyo Telecommunications' slow growth, starting a rivalry that did not end up as a friendship in our timeline, Matsushita Masaharu would attempt to further strengthen Matsushita Electric's hold on Guangdong to turn it into a corporate empire, and Komai Kenichirō will brutally implement the Manchurian system to industrialize Guangdong at the expense of the workers.

* The Yakuza are among the many criminals that lie within Guangdong, and have a fierce rivalry with the Triads, and it's not uncommon for a downright MobWar to occur every now once then. Ibuka has allied with them due to Morita allying with the Triads for their assistance towards the Chinese underclass, and much like the above, Matsushita is gathering evidence to prevent them from causing too much of a ruckus, and Komai occasionally uses them to kowtow anyone that threatens Hitachi's regime. Kazuma Kiryu and Goro Majima, in spite of being Yakuza, downright oppose Ibuka and Komai for this, and for Kiryu in particular, Komai reminds him too much of Kyohei Jingu, a CorruptPolitican who also happened to be greedy. On the other hand, they are willing to work with Matsushita, albeit ''very'' reluctantly due to also being willing to dissolute part of the Yakuza as well, and even then, Kiryu feels way too uncomfortable with Matsushita due his motivations reminding him of Tsuneo Iwami, though Matsushita has assured that unlike him, he doesn't plan to betray his father any time soon. Yousuke Otona prefers to not be around the Chief Executives, aside from Morita as they remind him way too much of his past as a yakuza enforcer. Meanwhile, Masaya Okonogi downright despises all three for reminding him of the time he was exploited by the yakuza through his swindling father at a young age.

* The Yakuza are among the many criminals that lie within Guangdong, and have a fierce rivalry with the Triads, and it's not uncommon for a downright MobWar to occur every now once then. Ibuka has allied with them due to Morita allying with the Triads for their assistance towards the Chinese underclass, and much like the above, Matsushita is gathering evidence to prevent them from causing too much of a ruckus, and Komai occasionally uses them to kowtow anyone that threatens Hitachi's regime. Kazuma Kiryu and Goro Majima, in spite of being Yakuza, downright oppose Ibuka and Komai for this, and for Kiryu in particular, Komai reminds him too much of Kyohei Jingu, a CorruptPolitican who also happened to be greedy. On the other hand, they are willing to work with Matsushita, albeit ''very'' reluctantly due to also being willing to dissolute part of the Yakuza as well. Yousuke Otona prefers to not be around the Chief Executives, aside from Morita as they remind him way too much of his past as a yakuza enforcer. Meanwhile, Masaya Okonogi downright despises all three for reminding him of the time he was exploited by the yakuza through his swindling father at a young age.

* (Yakuza)

* Portfolio in General:

** Komai Kenichirō: [[Pantheon/PovertyAndRiches Eliza and Neil Reagan]], [[Pantheon/BladedWeapons Banzai Chargers]], [[Pantheon/{{Logistics}} Masataka]] [[Pantheon/{{Currency}} Shima]], [[Pantheon/EvilActions Saruman]]

** Graduating from Tokyo Imperial and later rising up the ranks of Hitachi Limited, Komai is one of the Reform Bureaucrats to have ascended in the pantheon, and such an innocent name hides the sheer amount of cruelty and exploitation of Imperial Japan. Under them, the Reform Bureaucrats subordinate most of their subjects' economies to extract their resources regardless of the human cost. As such, his ideology would find a place in Saruman's Uruk-Hai, where industrialization was practically underway- Hitachi's presence just exacerbated the conditions over there, and the more money comes out of it, the better.

** Komai Kenichirō: [[Pantheon/PovertyAndRiches Eliza and Neil Reagan]]

* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Ibuka with Komai, due only being invited as a sideliner against Morita Akio, and consequently, Ibuka and Komai's allies tend to not work together willingly.

** (IJA connections)